It’s taken us 4 years to scale Web Summit from 400 attendees to 20,000 and a bunch of physicists have played a big part. Back in 2010, 3 international journalists showed up, this year it will exceed 1,200. Investors...

Over the past several years, a new wave of robot technology has offered us a glimpse at our heavily automated future, featuring drones, telepresence bots, therapeutic robots, and surgery bots that assist (or maybe take over for) doctors. The robotics industry has actually been around for a long time, with numerous companies working on warehouse automation, industrial robotics, and the like since the middle of the last century.

But as this interactive visualization from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and Quid reveals, the industry is expanding at near-warp speed.

"FriendViz is a set of visualization designed to help Facebook users explore their friends. Our goal for this project is to evaluate how visualization may incorporate as part of user interface to encourage social network participation."

Metrics & ROI - Unless your data can be effectively collected, analyzed, and transformed into meaningful and actionable insights—and then used to tell a compelling, actionable story—it is essentially useless.

This image depicts a network of 3000 contracts among 2700 primary funding offices, contracting corporations and subcontractors reported as receiving funds. Nodes indicate organizations, The size of the nodes is relative to the current sum of payments it has made. Grey lines indicate payments, with widths proportional to the aggregate amounts. Mousing over small nodes will reveal the name of the corporation. Clicking on a contractor loads the associated contract information on the fedspending site (won't work for the big blue agency nodes)

Alexander Semenov's insight:

Neat interactive visualization of US Department of Defense contracts network by Skye Bender-deMoll.

The Italian computer scientist Massimo Franceschetti writes that for all the popularity of social networks today, “few know, however, that the first example of social network is attributed to psychiatrist Jacob Moreno, a hand-drawn image depicting friendship patterns between the boys and the girls in a class of schoolchildren, presented at a medical conference in New York in 1933.”

Alexander Semenov's insight:

"The Italian computer scientist Massimo Franceschetti writes that for all the popularity of social networks today, “few know, however, that the first example of social network is attributed to psychiatrist Jacob Moreno, a hand-drawn image depicting friendship patterns between the boys and the girls in a class of schoolchildren, presented at a medical conference in New York in 1933."

Today, petabytes of digital information are generated daily by such sources as social media, Internet activity, surveillance sensors, and advanced research instruments. The results are often referred to as 'big data' – accumulations so huge that highly sophisticated computer techniques are required ...

Alexander Semenov's insight:

One day *.csv and pajek files will not be enough for my SNA tasks and I might need some of these

Human helps people in Amsterdam move almost twice as much in six weeks. Every day, people track millions of activities with our app. We visualized data in Amsterdam and other major cities across the globe to get an insight into Human activity.

One of the cool not-so-known feature of Linkedin was the ability to visualize your professional network. This was provided via inMaps and allowed everyone to get a feel of the communities and influencers in his own network. On August 31 this service will be discontinued but you can still visualize your Linkedin network.

Collect your data

First step first. We need to collect the information about our connections and their relationships. The good news is that Linkedin has a nice API anyone can use. The bad news is that this API only allows us to see our connections and the connections between them. Just like with inMaps, we will not be able to see the individuals we are not connected to.

We are going to need to register a new application with Linkedin to be able to use its API. Simply go here and sign in with your account (you do have an account, right?).

This post was written by the team behind DataCamp, the online interactive learning platform for data science. After being dubbed “sexiest job of the 21st Century” by Harvard Business Review, data scientists have stirred the interest of the general public. Many people are intrigued by this job, namely because the name has an interesting […]

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